Glenda Funk of Idaho is our host today at http://www.ethicalela.com for the first day of the July Open Write. She inspires us to write Double Consciousness American Sonnets, which are looser forms of the traditional Shakespearean or Petrarchan Sonnet with the Volta, or shift, around line 8 or 9. Come visit the page today and read the poems of others, and perhaps write your own to share!
Instructions for Knitting a Poem
knit one, purl two, I hook words as I write
cool peace, with shades of panic-level fright
these variegated colors of yarn skein
like phases of moon cycles: wax and wane
crack of thunder harkens a derecho
aftermath: look up and see a rainbow
cast on, bind off ~ weave from all this SABLE
knit one, purl two, count along a cable
change skeins ~ dye lots show unstable jogging
tug trail legs: necessary frogging
sometimes we can’t undo what has been done
new leading legs knit common threads as one
a cozy mitten pair: rich mosaic
poetry can change the dull prosaic
Common Threads 